Ethnic Issues
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Race & Economics: How Much Can Be Blamed on Discrimination?
$14.95 Add to cartWalter E. Williams applies an economic analysis to the problems black Americans have faced in the past and still face in the present to show that that free-market resource allocation, as opposed to po… [more below]
- Series: Hoover Institution Press Publication
- Author: Williams, Walter E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: April 27 2011
- ISBN10: 0817912452
- Language: English
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Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Talk about Life in the Segregated South
$28.32 Add to cartA timely paperback reissue of the stunning, prize-winning portrait of the Jim Crow South through unique first-person accounts
Praised as “viscerally powerful” (Publishers Weekly), this remarkable work
- Author: Chafe, William H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 162097682X
- Language: English
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Crazy Horse Weeps: The Challenge of Being Lakota in White America
$19.95 Add to cartFor Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota people, historical trauma, chronically underfunded federal programs, and broken promises on the part of the US government have resulted in gaping health, educational, an… [more below]
- Author: Marshall, Joseph M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: February 21 2019
- ISBN10: 1682750256
- Language: English
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Hair Story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America
$18.99 Add to cartTwo world wars, the Civil Rights movement, and a Jheri curl later, Blacks in America continue to have a complex and convoluted relationship with their hair. From the antebellum practice of shaving the
- Author: Byrd, Ayana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 28 2014
- ISBN10: 1250046572
- Language: English
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We Will Tell Our Own Story: The Lions of Africa Speak!
$45.00 Add to cartThese authors, all deeply dedicated to the telling of an African story, are committed to righting the wrongs of intellectual inquiry by setting upright the standards, criteria, and assumptions often a
- Author: Akomolafe, Adebayo C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 01, 2017
- ISBN10: 0982532768
- Language: English
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Indians in Eden: Wabanakis and Rusticators on Maine’s Mt. Desert Island
$16.95 Add to cartWhen the Wabanaki were moved to reservations, they proved their resourcefulness by catering to the burgeoning tourist market during the 19th and early 20th centuries, when Bar Harbor was called Eden. … [more below]
- Author: McBride, Bunny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0892728043
- Language: English
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The Classroom and the Cell: Conversations on Black Life in America
$14.95 Add to cartThis collection of conversations between celebrity intellectual Marc Lamont Hill and famed political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal is a shining example of African American men speaking for themselves about
- Author: Abu-Jamal, Mumia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 177
- Publish Date: January 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0883783371
- Language: English
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Healing Plants: Medicine of the Florida Seminole Indians
$19.95 Add to cartThe first published record of Florida Seminole herbal medicine and ancient healing practices, Healing Plants is a colorfully illustrated compendium of knowledge and practices passed down orally to Ali… [more below]
- Author: Snow, Alice Micco
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: September 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0813061725
- Language: English
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Honoring the Medicine: The Essential Guide to Native American Healing
$18.00 Add to cartFor thousands of years, Native medicine was the only medicine on the North American continent. It is America’s original holistic medicine, a powerful means of healing the body, balancing the emotions,… [more below]
- Author: Cohen, Kenneth S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: June 27 2006
- ISBN10: 0345435133
- Language: English
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March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights
$24.99 Add to cartIt was the final speech of a long day, August 28, 1963, when hundreds of thousands gathered on the Mall for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. In a resounding cadence, Martin Luther King Jr… [more below]
- Author: Jones, William P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0393349411
- Language: English
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There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America (Helen Bernstein Book Award)
$19.00 Read moreNATIONAL BESTSELLER – A moving and powerful account by an acclaimed journalist that “informs the heart. [This] meticulous portrait of two boys in a Chicago housing project shows how much heroism is re… [more below]
- Author: Kotlowitz, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 05 1992
- ISBN10: 0385265565
- Language: English
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The Great Vanishing ACT: Blood Quantum and the Future of Native Nations
$21.95 Add to cartThe Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 was the US government’s attempt to define who “Indians” were. Among the criteria the act set was a blood quantum, which declared that “Indians” were “all other pe… [more below]
- Author: Hill Jr, Norbert S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 350
- Publish Date: August 21 2017
- ISBN10: 1682750655
- Language: English
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Black Miami in the Twentieth Century
$29.95 Add to cartThe first book devoted to the history of African Americans in south Florida and their pivotal role in the growth and development of Miami, Black Miami in the Twentieth Century traces their triumphs, d
- Series: Florida History and Culture
- Author: Dunn, Marvin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0813062985
- Language: English
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Black Broadway in Washington, DC
$40.99 Add to cartBefore chain coffeeshops and luxury high-rises, before even the beginning of desegregation and the 1968 riots, Washington’s Greater U Street was known as Black Broadway. From the early 1900s into the … [more below]
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: Thomas, Briana A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: January 04 2021
- ISBN10: 1540245608
- Language: English
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A Primer: to talk about race & dialogue across identity divisions
$34.95 Add to cartMany people find it difficult to talk about race in a meaningful way! Most don’t know even try because we aren’t taught how! Let’s be honest, it is rare to find opportunities to learn how to communica
- Author: Scott, Karla
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: June 01 2023
- ISBN10: 9798988413103
- Language: English
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Clitso Dedman, Navajo Carver: His Art and His World
$39.95 Add to cartRebecca Valette’s Clitso Dedman, Navajo Carver is the first biography of artist Clitso Dedman (1876-1953), one of the most important but overlooked Diné (Navajo) artists of his generation. Dedman was… [more below]
- Author: Valette, Rebecca M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496235819
- Language: English
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Black in White Space: The Enduring Impact of Color in Everyday Life
$18.00 Read moreFrom the vital voice of Elijah Anderson, Black in White Space sheds fresh light on the dire persistence of racial discrimination in our country.
A birder strolling in Central Park. A college student- Author: Anderson, Elijah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0226826414
- Language: English
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Standing Bear’s Quest for Freedom: The First Civil Rights Victory for Native Americans
$19.95 Add to cart2023 Nebraska Book Award
Chief Standing Bear of the Ponca Nation faced arrest for leaving the U.S. government’s reservation, without its permission, for the love of his son and his people. Standing B- Author: Dwyer, Lawrence A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 234
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1496232461
- Language: English
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How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America
$18.00 Read more“Bayoumi offers a revealing portrait of life for people who are often scrutinized but seldom heard from.” —Booklist (starred review)
“Wholly intelligent and sensitively-drawn, How Does It Feel to Be- Author: Bayoumi, Moustafa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0143115413
- Language: English
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The Mis-Education of the Negro
$14.95 Add to cartOriginally released in 1933, The Mis-Education of the Negro continues to resonate today, raising questions that readers are still trying to answer. The impact of slavery on the Black psyche is explore… [more below]
- Author: Woodson, Carter G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0913543705
- Language: English
